Supervisors discuss road paving with Black Hawk County officials

The Grundy County Board of Supervisors held a joint meeting with officials from Black Hawk County on Monday morning to discuss the possibility of paving a gravel road running south of Highway 20 along the county line.
           
Black Hawk County Engineer Cathy Nicholas said that her department maintains the road, which stretches about five miles, and it has become quite expensive with the amount of traffic traveling on it.
           
“We’ve spent $25,000 to $30,000 just placing aggregate on the soft spots,” she said. “It’s quite a bit of cost.”
           
She added that the road sees almost 300 vehicles per day, so paving it would definitely be worth the cost in her view. Both boards seemed to agree that they would like to have the project finished by 2021, and Grundy County Auditor Rhonda Deters said that the county could see up to $750,000 in revenue from wind turbines by 2020 as tax abatements expire.
           
As Grundy County has a much lower population and annual revenues than Black Hawk, supervisor Mark Schildroth noted that they try to be as conservative as possible with spending but voiced his support for the project.
 
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